INGREDIENTS

8 ounces angel hair pasta, cooked
6 ounces lump crabmeat, undrained
1/2 pound shrimp, cooked and chopped
1 large onion, diced
4 garlic cloves, pressed
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon basil
1 quart half-and-half
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
Red pepper flakes, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste

PREPARATION

Sauté onion and garlic in butter until onion is nearly translucent. Add oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper and stir. Add half-and-half and bring the mixture to a boil. In a bowl, mix cornstarch with enough water to dilute it and pour it into the boiling sauce until you get the desired consistency. Stir in crab and shrimp, cook for another minute, and take sauce off the heat. Spoon the sauce over angel hair pasta and enjoy!

June is a popular month for wedding bells, so let’s look at some sayings about love and marriage.

—If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

—“Love thy neighbor—and if he happens to be tall, debonaire, and devastating, it will be that much easier.” —Mae West

—“I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.” —Rita Rudner

—Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

—“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complains that he’s not the man she married?” —Barbra Streisand

—No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.

—The four most important words in any marriage are, “I’ll do the dishes.”

—Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

—Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

We generally consider “cloak and dagger” as a reference to spying, deception, or espionage, but it didn’t start that way. While unrelated to espionage in general, the phrase can be traced back to around 1400 BC, when English poet Geoffrey Chaucer mentioned “The smiler with the knife under the cloak” in The Knight’s Tale. It can also reference melodramatic French and Spanish plays in the nineteenth century, called “cloak and dagger” theater because their swashbuckling characters often wore these items.